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I w. H. RUSSELL. Improvement in Apparatus for Burning Hy No. 128,914.

drocarbons as Fuel.

Pat ented July 9, 1872.

acac a WILLIAM H. nUssnLL, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YoRK, nssrenonroi ninsatr AND JAMES M. BROOKFIELD, or SAME rnacn.

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thereof, which will enable those skilled in the Be itiknown-that I, WILLIAM H. RussnLL, city of Brooklyn, county of Kings and ate. of New York, have invented a new and paratus for Using Hydrocarbons I do hereby declare the followand :exact description art to makes. (1 usethe same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing formiu g part Of this specification, in which drawin g- Figure 1 is an elevation of'my apparatus, the furnace being shown in section. Fig. 2 is a modification, which shows how the invention "can be used in glass houses. arate view of the dischargenozzle of the steam- Fig. 3 is a seppipe.

I This invention relates to the use of hydro carbon oils as fuel in furnaces or steam-boilers, or furnaces of glass-houses or other places where heat is to be produced; and consists of or other place where heat is to be f also discharges into the furnace. steam-pipes are governed by suitable stopa pipe for discharging the oil into a furnace produced, terminatin g over the end of asteam-pipe which The oil and cocks, and the end of the steam-pipe is pro vided with a hollow button through which the steam passes, and from which it is discharged through a small orifice at the end, the arrangement being such that the steam is compelled to issue therefrom through a small opening, so

that it will spread and strike the falling oil and break it into fine particles, and disperse the same in the furnace so that their combus- .tionwill' be facilitated. .Atmospheric air to aid combustion is admitted into the, furnace inanyconvenientmannert. v r .7

Ido not restrictmyself to any particular kind of hydrocarbon oil in usin g my apparatus,

as loan use dead or refuse oil as well as crude and refined. 'The letter A designates a tank for holding the oil or fuel, and Bis a piperwhich conducts the oil into the furnace G of a steam-boiler.

The pipe B is provided with a stop-cock, D,

to regulate the discharge of oil, and when I use dead or heavy oil I employ a scraper or cleaner, a, which works through the end E of ,il-plpe in the furnace, so as to cleanse it from adhering matter which might clog it.

the furnace, I arrange a steam-pipe, F, which leads from the steam-space of the boiler, and

is provided at its end in the furnacewith a discharge-nozzle or button, G, having only a fine opening at its entreinity, through the steam issues andwspreads beneath the oill pipe, the end of theoil pipe being arranged'so as to project a little distance beyond theext'remity of the steam pipe, so thatlthe steam will strike the falling oil as it descends from the end of the oiLpipe, as illustrated in the drawing. The steam, on issuin g from the nozzle or button G, strikes the oil and breaks it into fine particles, which are carried forward and scattered by the spreading steam into the inner parts of the furnace. The furnace is sup plied with the necessary quantity of atmospherlc air or oxygen by perforations through the doors H of the furnace, or through the ashpit, as may be preferred.

It will, be observed that the oil, as it falls down from its pipe upon the current of steam below it, will be broken up into fine particles by the mechanical action of the steam, and carried and dispersed by it through the furnacev sons to be exposed on all sidesto the fire.

The modification in Fig. 2 shows an afrangement for employing my invention-inglass furnaces. In this view the letter B (designates the oil-pipe, which is arranged in'the'i'orm of a ring, from the inner side of which oil is discharged at as many points as may be desired, according to the number of glass pots con tained in the furnace; radial nozzles I) being arranged on the inner side of the ring, as indicatedrinthe drawing. .Steam issuppliedhy means of a concentric steam-pipe, F, arranged in a lower plane than the oil-pipe B, the'isteampipe being provided with radial discharge-nozzles c that extend in the same radial. lines as the oil-nozzles b beneath the same, but not reaching so far inward, so that the oil dripping down from the ends of the oil-nozzles will fall upon the currents of steam from the respective steam-nozzles, and be acted on to be bra ken up and minutely divided, as before plained. The ends of the steamnozzles are constructed, as before explained, with a he low button or nozzle, whose end has a small a enera vention is used, should be provided with a suitable grate or surface for receiving mate- I rial wherewitli misindle or stem fire of oent extent and degree of heat to cause combastion of the oil, the steam itself assisting in the combustion when it becomes decomposed by the heat, its hydrogen being consumed, and

its oxygen supporting the combustion. The steam-pipe in this modicetion may be horizontally-giarailel or nearly so with the oil-pipe; but in such ease the steam-nozzles must be bent down belos the oil-pipe so as to discharge in a lower plane than the oil-pipe nozzles.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1 In a furnace or place for carrying on comhustion, apipe, B, for discharging hydrocarbon oil therein, in combination with a steam-pipe having a button, G, arranged beneath and a little behind it in such a manner that tile-oil from the pipe will fall into the current of steam, substantially as described.

2. The hollow button G, provided with a small discharge orifice, as described, arranged v on the end of the steam-pipe F, substantially as set forth.

3. The circular oil-pipe B with radial discharge nozzles b on itsinner side, in combina-- tion with the concentric steampipe F, pr0vid ed with. radial discharge-nozzles 0 below the plane of the oil-nozzles, in such a manner that the oil and steam are directed toward a common center, substantially as described, for use in furnaces for glass houses.

This specification signed by me this 27th day of May, 1872.

. WM. H. RUSSELL.

Witnesses W. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBEB. 

